Searches for rare plants in Australia’s sub-alpine regions has found small populations of all five rare plant species – a huge relief after fears the devastating Black Summer bushfires might have wiped them out. | perkinsmiki
Seed collectors have found five rare native plant species in the Australian Alps, a relief after the Black Summer fires.
Georgia Davis, from the WWF-Australia, joined other volunteers searching for rare subalpine plants in Namadgi National Park in March. Korda and a colleague went to a remote area of Namadgi National Park – the largest intact bog and fen community in the Australian alps – to look for the Namadgi tea tree. They were thrilled to discover dwarf violets growing in the same location, an area where they were previously unknown.
Cuttings are also taken from plants: “We’re very careful to make sure we only take material if there’s enough there so that we won’t affect the existing population,” he says.They hope these nursery-grown plants could be used to bolster wild populations in the future. Human-caused climate change makes this type of intervention more urgent because extreme bushfire conditions are becoming more frequent.
Some alpine plants rely on fire to germinate and others need a certain length of time under freezing conditions, growing quickly after the snow melts.
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